Debt to GDP: 86.1% (-1% vs 2020) GDP Per Capita (PPP): $46,344 (+3.1% vs 2020) Population: 67.6 million (+0.6% vs 2020) Electricity Consumption Per Capita: 4496 kWh British coal’s century of decline reaches its conclusion Famously Margaret Thatcher waged a political war in the 1980s to de-emphasize coal mining and switch to cheaper imported coal alongside gas and nuclear power. But the decline in the UK’s coal industry has been consistent all the way back to 1914, as the first ever industrialized nation gradually lost its role as the world’s factory. By the turn of the millennium the UK imported more coal than it produced, at which point it stabilized for a decade. The collapse of coal demand in…